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作者:韋忠和 這幾天新聞上出現(xiàn)很常見的一個詞:Ponzi scheme。美國華爾街傳奇人物、納斯達(dá)克股票市場公司前董事會主席伯納德·麥道夫11日晨因涉嫌“龐氏騙局”證券欺詐遭警方逮捕。檢察人員指控他通過操縱一只對沖基金給投資者損失大約至少500億美元。 Ponzi scheme 到底是怎么回事呢?查了相關(guān)資料,解釋如下: A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that involves paying abnormally high returns to investors out of the money paid in by subsequent investors, rather than from the profit from any real business. It is named after Charles Ponzi. A Ponzi scheme has similarities with a pyramid scheme though the two types of fraud are different. It usually offers abnormally high short-term returns in order to entice new [...]